2020 is too unusual. We really didn’t do much, just witnessing history.
has only half a year left. It has an unprecedented history, some breathless history.
Yesterday, a friend sighed:
In the first six months of this year, we witnessed the Spanish flu in 1918, the Great Depression in 1929, and the financial crisis in 2008. Oh, if you are an American, you must add one more, the racial riot in 1968...
The changes in mankind for a hundred years were condensed in the first half of 2020. Looking back many years later, we may feel a lot of emotion. How lucky and unfortunate our generation is!
, let’s sort it out briefly, it’s really extraordinary:
1, in 2020, we almost witnessed a war.
This year began in the shadow of war. On January 3, people never expected that Trump really took action, and the missile target cleared Iranian 's flower Soleimani . The reckless actions caused sharp turmoil in the situation in the Middle East and Iran's inevitable revenge.
5 days later, Iran launched a missile attack on the US military's Iraqi base. It is rare that this time the United States chose to endure and remain silent and secretly disclose the casualties. Otherwise, a big war might really break out in 2020. Inevitably, the creatures were devastated again. In 2020, we witnessed the most tragic air crash.
The US-Iran conflict, although both sides finally chose to restrain themselves. But the most tragic thing is a Ukrainian civil aviation passenger plane. On January 8, Iran launched a missile retaliation against the United States, but he accidentally hit the plane.
176 people became unjust souls. In addition to the innocent Iranians, there were 63 Canadians, 10 Swedes, 3 Germans and 3 British people on board...
This is the beginning of 2020. This year of Gengzi, there are too many unusual things.
3, in 2020, we witnessed the first division of the EU.
htmlOn January 31, the UK officially left the EU. The EU, which has been expanding, finally ushered in division for the first time. The situation in Europe, the relationship between Europe and the United States, and the world pattern are undergoing subtle changes.4, In 2020, we witnessed an unprecedented COVID-19 epidemic.
This is the most important event of 2020, no doubt.
For the Chinese, we have survived the most unforgettable Spring Festival in our lives. We have witnessed the tragic lockdown of Wuhan. We have seen the white-clothed warriors gathered urgently to Wuhan from New Year's Eve. We once thought it might be difficult to get through this level, but more than two months later, a miracle happened and China actually reversed the situation...
But we have also witnessed a similar scene that continues to be staged all over the world, first Japan and South Korea, then Iran, Italy and Spain. Of course, the most tragic things are now, including Brazil and the United States. The situation in some countries is even more tragic than that in Hubei and Wuhan.
A country with confidence that can easily control the situation and eliminate the virus suddenly became the country with the largest number of confirmed cases in the world after a few weeks. No wonder the old lady of Hillary mocked: He promised to be the first in the United States!
Old lady, who do you mean?
An Italian official sighed: In the past, Italy watched the Chinese fight against the epidemic like watching science fiction movies, thinking that it had nothing to do with itself; later, other countries still watched Italy fight against the epidemic with the same mentality as watching science fiction movies...
5, in 2020, we witnessed the sudden collapse of the world economy.
According to the forecast of IMF, the global economy will grow by -3.0% in 2020, and it may continue to be downgraded.
You read it right, it is a negative number! In my impression, this may also be the worst record since the IMF was founded.
But this is reality, reality is quite cruel. We see that airlines around the world are crying, and Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, is almost on the verge of bankruptcy; cruise companies, tourism companies, and film and television industries are even more in tears; and there are also thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises struggling on the verge of death...
6, in 2020, we witnessed an unprecedented collapse in the stock market.
just say US stock .
In the history of the US stock market, there were 5 circuit breakers in , and 4 times occurred in March this year.
This situation made the stock god Buffett , who had seen many ups and downs, feel very emotional: , he lived to be 89 years old, and has never seen this scene before.
But now, he has to change his tone. There is a joke that says:
March 8, Buffett: I lived to be 89 years old and I have only seen a circuit breaker in the US stock market once.
htmlOn March 9, Buffett: I lived to be 89 years old and have only seen two circuit breakers in the US stock market. htmlOn March 12, Buffett: I lived to be 89 years old and have only seen three circuit breakers in the US stock market. htmlOn March 16, Buffett: I lived to be 89 years old and have only seen four U.S. stock circuit breakers.March 18, Buffett: I am too young......
7. In 2020, we also witnessed the oil prices that made history.
Have you ever seen a price of $0 for oil? Humans have never seen it before
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But in this April, we not only witnessed the oil price of $0, but we finally knew that $0 was just the floor, and there were 18 layers of hell below the floor. The oil price once closed at -37.63 per barrel, a drop of more than 300%.
There is no doubt that this is the most tragic scene in the history of world oil, no doubt about it.
How much wealth has turned into an eternal tragedy in this night.
7. In 2020, we also witnessed the bottomless buck.
The fierce battle to slash and anti-stop blame is still continuing. In order to shirk their own responsibilities, some politicians are still looking for scapegoats. So, we have seen too many lies in international public opinion recently. What is even more shocking is that some politicians can say one shocking argument after another without any evidence or drafts, such as the "Chinese virus" and the WHO's ineffectiveness!
Repeating lies a thousand times may not necessarily turn into truth, but it has disturbed the public opinion in the world.
is very interesting. Just this June, Trump criticized former Secretary of State Powell, saying, "Didn't Powell say that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?" They didn't, but we started the war!
This reminds people of the classic photo of Powell holding the test tube. Putin later joked: Maybe it’s washing powder in , right? Now, it is Trump who publicly expressed his doubts.
But Trump, you have to learn from your lessons. Your current Secretary of State is better than Powell!
9, In 2020, we witnessed the racial tear that has not been seen in the West in decades.
One city after another, people are protesting angrily; shops after shops and even police stations are set on fire. Floyd, a black American, was killed by police, triggered the largest anti-racial discrimination and anti-violent law enforcement in the United States in decades.
But the destruction of social order made Trump angry again. He once scolded the American governors: The United States has become a laughing stock in the world, and the whole world is laughing at us... Most of you are too weak, you have to catch people, chase people, and send them to prison for 10 years, and you will not see these guys again...
2020, the United States is too uneasy.
10. In 2020, we are still witnessing a wave of demolishing statues.
One statue after another was graffiti, pushed down, and even destroyed. Moreover, this movement to push down the statue was starting from the United States and then sweeping the West.
Anyway, in the United States, Columbus statues everywhere were beheaded, graffitied, and sunk to the lake; unlucky were the southern generals during the Civil War.
In Belgium , the statue of King Leopold II, who was once stained with African blood, was burned, graffitied, and destroyed. In the UK, even if it is Churchill , his statue in London's Parliament Square was also graffitied, and on the pedestal, Churchill's name was also cut off, and people wrote: This is a racist.
For the West, this is an unprecedented wave, and the previous wave has not yet ended, and the next wave has rolled forward again...
2020, if we sort it out carefully, we have witnessed too much history.
The Tokyo Olympics this summer have been ruined. If you want to watch the game, sports fans can only watch more of the previous videos.
The Chinese college entrance examination has also been postponed. Chinese students have returned to the hot examination hall in July after more than ten years.
Leaders of various countries are unable to go abroad, and many international summits have become global videos.
and so in June, Trump, who was enthusiastic about holding an offline summit of seven Western countries, Merkel was the first to refuse.
and -
We never expected that masks became the most intimate New Year’s goods.
Western people did not expect that toilet paper is their favorite product to buy.
Americans did not expect that Trump had once hid in the White House bunker...
Of course, there is also -
We did not expect that after the epidemic, China's economy has returned from full blood and is accelerating the resumption of work and production.
We have also witnessed that some new outbreaks, such as Beijing, are now entering a level 2 state.
We also witnessed the new situation on the peninsula and the uneasiness in our southwestern border.
is too uneasy and heavy.
Finally, I don’t want to say more. In three simple sentences:
first, 2020 is unusual, but there are no difficulties and challenges, which can stump the brave Chinese people. is like this in Wuhan, and even more so in Beijing.
Second, there will definitely be no major changes in the world that have not been seen in a century. The same few words: He is strong and lets him be strong, the breeze blows through the hills; he is strong and lets him be horizontal, the bright moon shines on the river.
Third, in just a few months, we have witnessed the condensed century-old history, and we are part of history. But this is just the beginning. The drama must start with the prologue, but the prologue is not the climax.
